/lit/ - Literature

>>9948086
>>9952160
what's wrong with minarets anyway

personally it reminds me vasily velichko's poem that was quoted by alexander grin as an epigraph for his short story how a man suffering of megalomania accepted a challenge to walk a rope that was set at a significant altitude, the poem itself was about a muslim guy who climbed a minaret and was watching the world thinking how everything below him looked so small and insignificant:

...
playing children from afar
looked up at him and guessed:
"who is there on the crest,
on the minaret they are?"
so it was the children's word:
"it is but a little bird!"

>>9952229

stretching out their pseudopods!

>I'll tell thee everything I can:
>There's little to relate.
>I saw an aged aged man,
>A-sitting on a gate.
>"Who are you, aged man?" I said,
>"And how is it you live?"
>And his answer trickled through my head,
>Like water through a sieve.

>He said "I look for butterflies
>That sleep among the wheat:
>I make them into mutton-pies,
>And sell them in the street.
>I sell them unto men," he said,
>"Who sail on stormy seas;
>And that's the way I get my bread –
>A trifle, if you please."

>But I was thinking of a plan
>To dye one's whiskers green,
>And always use so large a fan
>That they could not be seen.
>So, having no reply to give
>To what the old man said,
>I cried "Come, tell me how you live!"
>And thumped him on the head.

>His accents mild took up the tale:
>He said "I go my ways,
>And when I find a mountain-rill,
>I set it in a blaze;
>And thence they make a stuff they call
>Rowlands' Macassar-Oil –
>Yet twopence-halfpenny is all
>They give me for my toil."

>But I was thinking of a way
>To feed oneself on batter,
>And so go on from day to day
>Getting a little fatter.
>I shook him well from side to side,
>Until his face was blue:
>"Come, tell me how you live," I cried,
>"And what it is you do!"

>He said "I hunt for haddocks' eyes
>Among the heather bright,
>And work them into waistcoat-buttons
>In the silent night.
>And these I do not sell for gold
>Or coin of silvery shine,
>But for a copper halfpenny,
>And that will purchase nine.

>"I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,
>Or set limed twigs for crabs:
>I sometimes search the grassy knolls
>For wheels of Hansom-cabs.
>And that's the way" (he gave a wink)
>"By which I get my wealth--
>And very gladly will I drink
>Your Honour's noble health."

>I heard him then, for I had just
>Completed my design
>To keep the Menai bridge from rust
>By boiling it in wine.
>I thanked him much for telling me
>The way he got his wealth,
>But chiefly for his wish that he
>Might drink my noble health.

>And now, if e'er by chance I put
>My fingers into glue,
>Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
>Into a left-hand shoe,

>Or if I drop upon my toe
>A very heavy weight,
>I weep, for it reminds me so
>Of that old man I used to know--
>Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow
>Whose hair was whiter than the snow,
>Whose face was very like a crow,
>With eyes, like cinders, all aglow,
>Who seemed distracted with his woe,
>Who rocked his body to and fro,
>And muttered mumblingly and low,
>As if his mouth were full of dough,
>Who snorted like a buffalo--
>That summer evening long ago,
>A-sitting on a gate.

>>8685781
he is cute

>>8686396
>listens to silence for the 4 hours or more that he spends in the car every working day

what's wrong with it?

listening to stuff is very annoying, regardless if it's music or something
i personally don't even have speakers on my pc and use headphones pretty rarely, sometimes not even once per a week
i don't drive currently but when i did i did it almost always in silence

>>8686096
canadians

it's because you are a product of the culture which that philosopher helped to create

you thought what you thought only because some guys had thought it long before you were born and they wrote some works and those works affected countless writers and artists and then you were born and read/watched/listened to something which was affected by the great thinkers of the past and it led to you developing the same ideas, and then, when you actually read their works you feel like it was they who stole your shit when it was they who made it possible for you to have those ideas to begin with

similar threads like yours appear on /lit/ from time to time

>>8683911
>he saw that painting of saint Sebastian bleeding gayly with the arrows sticking out
which one?
they all look kind of like this

>>8683363
that girl is... ar-pharazon?!

>>8683809
but it would be pathetic

>>8679928
it's an ice cream, isn't it? so... they sell so shaped ice creams in that park where he is sitting reading? because it should have melt if he carried it from far away

he was a decent poet too

>>8683321
>I want to had a Chad body and face
consider to get a chad's personality foremost

i think cp posting was a meme years ago and all such posters were immediately banned

4chan isn't really a law violating site or anything, the worst what you can find here it's links to how to pirate some shit

as for opinions of people, opinions aren't crimes

do people even really post cp here

even /b/ is so filthy law obedient that they help the police to catch criminals all the time

>>8683207
total depravity is popular due to the influence of st. augustin and not everybody agrees with him; like synergism is a common conception in the catholic and especially orthodox churches

you both likely will be pretty old when you win nobel

>>8683035
"duty" of honesty is a weird concept by itself because duty isn't a property of idea

so, without an explicit definition what you mean, everybody simply assigns to that phrase their own meaning, especially when you are that specific in what you actually meant

as for me the reason of honesty it's to say the truth, either good or bad one

>>8683047

general butt naked achieved it without any nietzsche

also he became an evangelist later which nietzsche wouldn't approve

the cover is hilarious

>>8682800

the slave makes completely honest statements there and both encourages (the positive duty of honesty) and discourages (the negative duty of honesty) his master

it also acknowledges the absurd world because his honest statements contradict each other

literally babylonians :3

...
>- Slave, listen to me!
>- Here I am, master, here I am!
>- I want to lead a revolution!
>- So lead, master, lead! If you do not lead a revolution, where will your clothes come from? And who will enable you to fill your belly?
>- O well, slave, I do not want to lead a revolution!
>- Do not lead, master, do not lead a revolution! The man who leads a revolution is either killed or flayed, Or has his eyes put out, or is arrested and thrown to jail!

>- Slave, listen to me!
>- Here I am, master, here I am! I want to make love to a woman
>- Make love, master, make love! The man who makes love to a woman forgets sorrow and fear!
>- O well, slave, I do not want to make love to a woman!
>- Do not make love, master, do not make love! Woman is a real pitfall, a hole, a ditch, Woman is a sharp iron dagger that cuts a man´s throat!

>- Slave, listen to me!
>- Here I am, master, here I am!
>- Quick! Fetch me water for my hands and give it to me. I want to sacrifice to my god
>- Sacrifice, master, sacrifice! The man who sacrifices to his god is satisfied at heart. He accumulates benefit after benefit.
>- O well, slave, I do not want to sacrifice to my god!
>- Do not sacrifice, master, do not sacrifice! You will teach your god to run after you like a dog. Whether he asks of you "Rites" or "Do you not consult your god?" or anything else!

>- Slave, listen to me!
>- Here I am, master, here I am!
>- I want to invest silver.
>- Invest, master, invest. The man who invests keeps his capital while his interest is enormous!
>- O well, slave, I do not want to invest silver!
>- Do not invest, master, do not invest! Making loans is as sweet as making love, but getting them back is like having children! They will take away your capital, cursing you without cease. They will make you lose the interest on the capital!

>- Slave, listen to me!
>- Here I am, master, here I am!
>- I want to perform a public benefit for my country!
>- So do it, master, do it! The man who performs a public benefit for his country His actions are exposed to the circle of Marduk!
>- O well, slave, I do not want to perform a public benefit for my country!
>- Do not perform, master, do not perform! Go up the ancient tells and walk about. See the mixed skulls of plebeians and nobles. Which is the malefactor and which is the benefactor?
...

>>8682688
>Would probably be the only way to get access to all the knowledge i can now get by just finding illegal pdf's on shady websites

it's kind of amusing how acquiring knowledge is either expensive or illegal

wikipedia says it's some history how some humans drank the water of immortality and killed a guy who wanted to reveal their secret

nice children's lit